Bassist Peter Iwers of Swedish metallers IN FLAMES recently spoke toNBCNews.com about his involvement with Barncancerfonden — a Swedish charity that fights to end childhood cancer and to ensure that affected children, teens and their families receive the care and support that they need.

Asked if he has had any moving experiences while working with the charity, Peter said: “There’s been a few. This one time we went to the hospital and met a kid, he was a huge IN FLAMES fan and he passed away about a month after we went to visit him. Recently, I got to know this kid who really affected me, and he wasn’t a child. He was nineteen years old, still very young. He found [out] he had cancer one day just out of the blue — his whole body was filled with cancer — and it regressed and he was told that he was better. He was better for about six months and then he went back in and just collapsed and it had spread all over and they told him there’s nothing we can do, you’re going to die. He was a bigIN FLAMES fan, and as it turned out, we had a mutual friend and we were in my summer house with Björn [Gelotte], our guitar player, and our mutual friend, and he said, ‘I know this guy.’ We went to visit him, just sat down and talk to him, and for 19 years old, he had the wisdom of an old man. He had accepted that he was about to die and he had made peace with it. He told us such stories about the things that he was most pissed about. He said, ‘I’m not afraid to die but I’m so pissed I never got to do this, I never got to do that.’ We hung out with him that day and then he came down to Gothenburg and we went out to dinner with him and hung out with him and [he] made me realize stuff that you never think about, you take for granted. He had his best friends, his family and me andBjörn. We just sat there listening to this guy who had the wisdom of a 400-year-old and it was so touching to talk to him. At the end of the night, he broke down and cried but before that he was so strong and so powerful and that [it] really touched me. He passed away four days later. It was horrible.”

Artist Series Guitar will release a limited-edition, collectible guitar designed by the heavy metal classic band ANTHRAX. The guitar will borrow the album artwork from ANTHRAX’s 1990 album “Persistence Of Time”. It will be hand-built from solid mahogany and feature a hand-carved maple top, dark rosewood fingerboard, limited-edition ANTHRAX artwork, ASG Arsenal Dual-Coil humbuckers, and much more.

ANTHRAX’s fifth studio album, “Persistence Of Time” was released on August 21, 1990 through Megaforce/Island and was nominated in 1991 for a Grammy Award in the “Best Metal Performance” category. The album included the singles “Got The Time” (a JOE JACKSON cover) and “In My World” (which was performed by the band on a “Married… With Children” episode entitled “My Dinner With Anthrax”).

“Persistence Of Time” was the last full ANTHRAX album to feature vocalist Joey Belladonna until 2011’s “Worship Music”.

Bunim/Murray Productions, a Banijay Group company, AEG Live/AEG Network Live and Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Las Vegas have announced a new documentary series, “Living With Def Leppard”. The multi-episode project will take viewers into the world of iconic rock band DEF LEPPARD, capturing the “VIVA Hysteria!” concerts which took place earlier this year at The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel.

The series follows the band, one that has been together since 1977 and continues to perform to fans in sold-out arenas and stadiums worldwide, both on and off the stage throughout their stay in Las Vegas. Viewers will witness the band’s camaraderie and spirit, which have kept them together for 35 years despite many challenges and temptations.

Bunim-Murray Productions and AEG Network Live filmed performances and documentary-style moments from the artists’ own point of view, showing a side to the band, and its members, unlike any ever seen before. It is the band’s story told by the band. The series also incorporates interviews with DEF LEPPARD fans, giving them the chance to tell their story of why they hold this band in such high regard and how the songs take them back to where the memories began. The docu-series has the potential to become a signature series, which will showcase multiple bands, all experienced through a similar format and storytelling technique.